punishing someone for insulting another person based on their race is equally wrong insulting someones religion is equivalent to calling a black person a nigger both are in the us forms of protected speech you cant go to jail and nor should you for doing either and in fact if you call someone a nigger and they punch you in the face theyre the ones who would should not a lawyer get in trouble getting up on a podium and calling to kill all the niggers is what will potentially get you arrested because now youre inciting violence these things arent equivalent hurting someones feelings no matter how violent theyre likely to become should never be banned terry jones should be allowed to burn as many qurans as he likes as distasteful as you and i might find that act